That worked! I booted of the CD with "puppy pfix=ram", ran debbi-1.1.pet, then moved the file debbi to a location outside of my pupsave file. I rebooted in my normal manner, and moved debbi back into the /root/my-applications/bin folder.

I then proceeded to follow the thread instructions. Installation went great.

I did notice that the top margins on some pages appeared to slip, but I suspect that is in the mechanics of the printer and has little to do with the drivers.

I have migrated to 5.7.1 on a Dell Inspiron laptop, since the last time I posted. I owe you a over due thank you for your help on installing my Brother printer on an old gateway that finally gave up the ghost...

I - this time - followed your detailed instructions on how to build a HL-2170W.ppd file and was quite successful.

My next project is to build a printer / scanner ppd.

I continue to run off a thumb drive, on a switched usb expander where I also have a wireless mouse and a panda wireless wifi thingy.

If anyone needs the HL-2170W.ppd or when I'm succussful with creating a MFC-J4410DW.ppd, just let me know!

Just to be clear, the "debbi" procedure does more than create a PPD file. It also installs all the printer driver content that you downloaded in the .DEB packages. A PPD file is just a configuration text file used by CUPS. It is only one part of the driver installation.Last edited by rcrsn51 on Fri 26 Feb 2016, 12:29; edited 1 time in total

I installed Puppy Precise 5.6.1 on my computer yesterday. I installed my two Brother printers using rcrsn51's Debbi program (HL-5250DN and .pet (MFC-7860DW). Both printers worked perfectly.

Today, I tried to print both a document (to both printers in turn) from openoffice writer and a test page from CUPS (1.4.. In all cases, the printer activity lights come on and there are clicking sounds, but nothing comes out of the printer. CUPS reports the jobs completed.

I set the CUPS reporting level to debug, restarted CUPS, and tried again. Results were the same, and the log reports no errors.

Although, something must have changed, I can't imagine what. I did correct a problem with GRUB, and I installed the .SFS for Skype.

This is a real head-scratcher for me!

I also tried installing the MFC-7860DW as a usb printer. The results were the same.

/tmp was owned by "nobody". I think this must have been related to the LHMP package. I changed owner to root, and set the permissions to 777. This seems to have solved the printing problem. Hopefully it didn't create other issues.

/tmp was owned by "nobody". I think this must have been related to the LHMP package. I changed owner to root, and set the permissions to 777. This seems to have solved the printing problem. Hopefully it didn't create other issues.

Nice work. The best setting for /tmp is 1777 - ie. set the "sticky" bit.

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Is it theoretically possible to install CUPS as an sfs, so that it would be easier to recover from this sort of permissions corruption?

Not really, the problem wasn't with CUPS - it was with some other package.

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